Vulcanisaeta distributa (DSM 14429, JCM 11212, IC-017)

Cell morphology

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Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5349	SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (ANAEROBIC) (DSMZ Medium 88a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SULFOLOBUS MEDIUM (ANAEROBIC) (DSMZ Medium 88a) Composition: Sulfur 10.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 1.3 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l KH2PO4 0.28 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.07 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.02 g/l Na2B4O7 x 10 H2O 0.0045 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.0018 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00022 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l VOSO4 x 2 H2O 3e-05 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 1e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

Oxygen tolerance

Pathway annotation

Computationally determined by

@ref	pathway	enzyme coverage	annotated reactions	external links
66794	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
66794	adipate degradation	100	2 of 2
66794	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
66794	glycogen metabolism	100	5 of 5
66794	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
66794	methylglyoxal degradation	100	5 of 5
66794	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
66794	starch degradation	90	9 of 10
66794	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	valine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
66794	flavin biosynthesis	86.67	13 of 15
66794	citric acid cycle	85.71	12 of 14
66794	vitamin B1 metabolism	84.62	11 of 13
66794	glycolysis	82.35	14 of 17
66794	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	82.14	23 of 28
66794	threonine metabolism	80	8 of 10
66794	Entner Doudoroff pathway	80	8 of 10
66794	ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway	80	4 of 5
66794	phenylacetate degradation (aerobic)	80	4 of 5
66794	cellulose degradation	80	4 of 5
66794	photosynthesis	78.57	11 of 14
66794	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	77.78	7 of 9
66794	d-mannose degradation	77.78	7 of 9
66794	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
66794	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
66794	phenylalanine metabolism	76.92	10 of 13
66794	vitamin B12 metabolism	76.47	26 of 34
66794	acetate fermentation	75	3 of 4
66794	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
66794	gluconeogenesis	75	6 of 8
66794	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	75	6 of 8
66794	isoleucine metabolism	75	6 of 8
66794	pentose phosphate pathway	72.73	8 of 11
66794	alanine metabolism	72.41	21 of 29
66794	NAD metabolism	72.22	13 of 18
66794	propanol degradation	71.43	5 of 7
66794	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	71.43	5 of 7
66794	propionate fermentation	70	7 of 10
66794	4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation	70	7 of 10
66794	serine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	nitrate assimilation	66.67	6 of 9
66794	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
66794	acetoin degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	formaldehyde oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
66794	acetyl CoA biosynthesis	66.67	2 of 3
66794	pantothenate biosynthesis	66.67	4 of 6
66794	lipid metabolism	64.52	20 of 31
66794	pyrimidine metabolism	64.44	29 of 45
66794	purine metabolism	63.83	60 of 94
66794	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	62.5	5 of 8
66794	histidine metabolism	62.07	18 of 29
66794	urea cycle	61.54	8 of 13
66794	leucine metabolism	61.54	8 of 13
66794	sulfate reduction	61.54	8 of 13
66794	methionine metabolism	61.54	16 of 26
66794	tryptophan metabolism	60.53	23 of 38
66794	hydrogen production	60	3 of 5
66794	lysine metabolism	59.52	25 of 42
66794	heme metabolism	57.14	8 of 14
66794	cardiolipin biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
66794	degradation of sugar acids	56	14 of 25
66794	cysteine metabolism	55.56	10 of 18
66794	arginine metabolism	54.17	13 of 24
66794	mannosylglycerate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	1,4-dihydroxy-6-naphthoate biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	sulfopterin metabolism	50	2 of 4
66794	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
66794	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	50	3 of 6
66794	degradation of hexoses	50	9 of 18
66794	ketogluconate metabolism	50	4 of 8
66794	biotin biosynthesis	50	2 of 4
66794	selenocysteine biosynthesis	50	3 of 6
66794	glycine metabolism	50	5 of 10
66794	phenylmercury acetate degradation	50	1 of 2
66794	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	50	6 of 12
66794	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	butanoate fermentation	50	2 of 4
66794	glutathione metabolism	50	7 of 14
66794	cis-vaccenate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
66794	degradation of sugar alcohols	50	8 of 16
66794	polyamine pathway	47.83	11 of 23
66794	oxidative phosphorylation	47.25	43 of 91
66794	degradation of pentoses	46.43	13 of 28
66794	proline metabolism	45.45	5 of 11
66794	ubiquinone biosynthesis	42.86	3 of 7
66794	isoprenoid biosynthesis	42.31	11 of 26
66794	methanogenesis from CO2	41.67	5 of 12
66794	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
66794	coenzyme M biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	creatinine degradation	40	2 of 5
66794	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
66794	non-pathway related	39.47	15 of 38
66794	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	37.5	3 of 8
66794	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
66794	tyrosine metabolism	35.71	5 of 14
66794	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	sulfoquinovose degradation	33.33	1 of 3
66794	lipid A biosynthesis	33.33	3 of 9
66794	enterobactin biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
66794	mevalonate metabolism	28.57	2 of 7
66794	metabolism of disaccharids	27.27	3 of 11
66794	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
66794	d-xylose degradation	27.27	3 of 11
66794	peptidoglycan biosynthesis	26.67	4 of 15
66794	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
66794	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
66794	carnitine metabolism	25	2 of 8
66794	bile acid biosynthesis, neutral pathway	23.53	4 of 17
66794	carotenoid biosynthesis	22.73	5 of 22
66794	4-hydroxymandelate degradation	22.22	2 of 9

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB063630 (>99% sequence identity) for Vulcanisaeta distributa from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	24
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	24

Risk assessment

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM14838v1 assembly for Vulcanisaeta distributa DSM 14429	complete	GCA_000148385	572478.10	648028062	572478	96.87

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5349	Vulcanisaeta distributa gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:IC-017	AB063630	1476		572478

GC content

Predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Donor strand complementation and calcium ion coordination drive the chaperone-free polymerization of archaeal cannulae.	Sleutel M, Sonani RR, Miller JG, Wang F, Gonzalez Socorro A, Chen Y, Martin R, Demeler B, Rudolph MJ, Alva V, Remaut H, Egelman EH, Conticello VP.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-025-64120-8	2025
Phylogeny	Identification of two archaeal GDGT lipid-modifying proteins reveals diverse microbes capable of GMGT biosynthesis and modification.	Garcia AA, Chadwick GL, Liu XL, Welander PV.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.2318761121	2024
Genetics	Archaea Microbiome Dysregulated Genes and Pathways as Molecular Targets for Lung Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma.	Uzelac M, Li Y, Chakladar J, Li WT, Ongkeko WM.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms231911566	2022
	Anti-biofilm properties of laser-synthesized, ultrapure silver-gold-alloy nanoparticles against Staphylococcus aureus.	Heine N, Doll-Nikutta K, Stein F, Jakobi J, Ingendoh-Tsakmakidis A, Rehbock C, Winkel A, Barcikowski S, Stiesch M.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-024-53782-x	2024
Phylogeny	Bacterial and archaeal communities in Lake Nyos (Cameroon, Central Africa).	Tiodjio RE, Sakatoku A, Nakamura A, Tanaka D, Fantong WY, Tchakam KB, Tanyileke G, Ohba T, Hell VJ, Kusakabe M, Nakamura S, Ueda A.	Sci Rep	10.1038/srep06151	2014
Genetics	Genomic Analysis of Vulcanisaeta thermophila Type Strain CBA1501T Isolated from Solfataric Soil.	Kim JY, Yim KJ, Song HS, Kim YB, Lee DG, Kwon J, Oh KS, Roh SW.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2016.01639	2016
	Resource use by individual Drosophila suzukii reveals a flexible preference for oviposition into healthy fruits.	Kienzle R, Gross LB, Caughman S, Rohlfs M.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-020-59595-y	2020
Enzymology	Computational identification of a new SelD-like family that may participate in sulfur metabolism in hyperthermophilic sulfur-reducing archaea.	Li GP, Jiang L, Ni JZ, Liu Q, Zhang Y.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/1471-2164-15-908	2014
	Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Archaea: A Comparison of the Whole-Genome-Based CVTree Approach with 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis.	Zuo G, Xu Z, Hao B.	Life (Basel)	10.3390/life5010949	2015
Genetics	METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks.	Zhou Z, Tran PQ, Breister AM, Liu Y, Kieft K, Cowley ES, Karaoz U, Anantharaman K.	Microbiome	10.1186/s40168-021-01213-8	2022
	An ancient family of SelB elongation factor-like proteins with a broad but disjunct distribution across archaea.	Atkinson GC, Hauryliuk V, Tenson T.	BMC Evol Biol	10.1186/1471-2148-11-22	2011
Metabolism	An uncharacterized member of the ribokinase family in Thermococcus kodakarensis exhibits myo-inositol kinase activity.	Sato T, Fujihashi M, Miyamoto Y, Kuwata K, Kusaka E, Fujita H, Miki K, Atomi H.	J Biol Chem	10.1074/jbc.m113.457259	2013
	New details of assembling bioactive films from dispersions of amphiphilic molecules on titania surfaces.	Goncalves Dias LF, Stamboroski S, Noeske M, Salz D, Rischka K, Pereira R, Mainardi MDC, Cardoso MH, Wiesing M, Bronze-Uhle ES, Esteves Lins RB, Lisboa-Filho PN.	RSC Adv	10.1039/d0ra06511k	2020
	TPV1, the first virus isolated from the hyperthermophilic genus Thermococcus.	Gorlas A, Koonin EV, Bienvenu N, Prieur D, Geslin C.	Environ Microbiol	10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02662.x	2012
Genetics	Complete genome sequence of Vulcanisaeta distributa type strain (IC-017).	Mavromatis K, Sikorski J, Pabst E, Teshima H, Lapidus A, Lucas S, Nolan M, Glavina Del Rio T, Cheng JF, Bruce D, Goodwin L, Pitluck S, Liolios K, Ivanova N, Mikhailova N, Pati A, Chen A, Palaniappan K, Land M, Hauser L, Chang YJ, Jeffries CD, Rohde M, Spring S, Goker M, Wirth R, Woyke T, Bristow J, Eisen JA, Markowitz V, Hugenholtz P, Klenk HP, Kyrpides NC	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.1113067	2010
Phylogeny	Vulcanisaeta thermophila sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic crenarchaeon isolated from solfataric soil.	Yim KJ, Cha IT, Rhee JK, Song HS, Hyun DW, Lee HW, Kim D, Kim KN, Nam YD, Seo MJ, Bae JW, Roh SW	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.065862-0	2014
Phylogeny	Vulcanisaeta distributa gen. nov., sp. nov., and Vulcanisaeta souniana sp. nov., novel hyperthermophilic, rod-shaped crenarchaeotes isolated from hot springs in Japan.	Itoh T, Suzuki K, Nakase T	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-52-4-1097	2002